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Microsoft’s quiet week of product polish and corporate re‑tooling suddenly feels like a single story about what happens when software, AI and workplace culture accelerate at different paces: Notepad — the tiny text box millions of Windows users open without thinking — now supports...

Meta’s purchase of Manus — a fast-growing, Singapore‑based startup that built a viral, general‑purpose autonomous agent — marks a decisive pivot in the company’s AI strategy and accelerates Meta’s shift from research and infrastructure toward deployable, revenue‑generating agentic products...

OpenAI’s recent product moves — a new GPT‑5.1 release with split “Instant” and “Thinking” behaviors, developer primitives that let models enact changes, and mass‑market features such as Sora 2 for text‑to‑video — amount to more than incremental capability gains; they are already forcing a...

Satya Nadella told Bloomberg Businessweek that DeepSeek’s R1 was the first AI model he’d seen come close to OpenAI’s performance — and Microsoft moved quickly to make R1 available in its Azure AI Foundry while stressing safety, local hosting options, and customer data protections. Background /...

Microsoft’s Copilot has briefly traded its productivity blazer for a holiday sweater: the company rolled out a time‑limited “Eggnog Mode” that overlays festive visuals, warmer phrasing and short, shareable micro‑interactions onto the Copilot experience — a deliberately scoped experiment that...

Microsoft’s AI team has formally declared a new ambition: build a controlled, auditable form of “superintelligence” that is explicitly designed to serve people — and it has put Mustafa Suleyman, the company’s AI chief, in charge of the effort. The MAI Superintelligence Team will pursue what...

OpenAI’s GPT-5.1 has arrived — and for Windows-focused enterprises building workplace agents, the most important change is not a single headline feature but a coordinated push across speed, adaptive reasoning, and personalization, now arriving inside Microsoft’s Copilot Studio as an experimental...

Microsoft and Rumo say a new Copilot-powered mobile app has slashed the average time it takes a Brazilian train driver to find an operational procedure from roughly four minutes to just three seconds—saving weight in operators’ backpacks, eliminating millions of printed pages, and delivering...

Infosys’ newly announced AI Agent for energy operations is a calculated attempt to move agentic generative AI from proof‑of‑concept demos into production workflows for drilling, pipelines, power generation and field maintenance, promising conversational multimodal analysis, automated reporting...

ADNOC’s announced expansion of its AI partnership with Microsoft marks a significant escalation in the energy sector’s race to embed advanced artificial intelligence across operations, infrastructure and the energy systems that will power global AI growth. Background ADNOC and Microsoft have...

A major NHS pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot reports an average saving of 43 minutes per staff member per working day and projects that a full rollout could reclaim up to 400,000 staff hours per month, a result organisers present as evidence that generative AI can materially reduce administrative...

Microsoft has disabled a discrete set of Azure cloud and Azure AI subscriptions used by an Israeli Ministry of Defense unit after an external review found evidence that elements of investigative reporting about large‑scale collection and processing of Palestinian communications were supported by...

Today’s hands‑on workshop, "Ready to Build with Agents? Join Us Oct 3rd for a Hands‑On Workshop," promises practical, seat‑at‑the‑keyboard experience with modern agent tooling — but attendees should arrive prepared for both the technical depth and the governance trade‑offs that come with...

The ChatGPT-era lexicon has become part of everyday tech conversation, and the 57-term glossary shared on bahiaverdade is a useful, plain‑language battery of definitions that captures both the practical tools and the philosophical flashpoints of modern AI. Background The pace of change in...

SymphonyAI’s IRIS Foundry now appears directly inside Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot, promising to move industrial AI from dashboards and backrooms into the daily workflows of plant operators and frontline teams—using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect OT data, AI reasoning...

Microsoft’s announcement that it has launched its own in-house AI models represents a strategic turning point: the company is no longer just a primary host and commercial partner for OpenAI — it is actively building the foundation for an independent, vertically integrated AI stack that could...

Microsoft has pushed a major real‑time audio milestone into the Azure stack: gpt‑realtime, a speech‑to‑speech (S2S) model optimized for low‑latency, natural‑sounding conversational agents, is now generally available on Azure AI Foundry and accessible through the Real‑time API for developers and...

Microsoft’s move to ship MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview marks a clear strategic inflection: the company is no longer only a buyer and integrator of frontier models but a serious producer of first‑party models engineered to run inside Copilot and across Microsoft’s consumer surfaces. Microsoft...

Microsoft has quietly shipped its first fully in‑house AI models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — marking a deliberate shift in strategy that reduces dependence on OpenAI’s stack and accelerates Microsoft’s plan to own more of the compute, models, and product surface area that power Copilot...

Microsoft has quietly moved from partner-dependent experimentation to deploying its own, production‑focused models with the public debut of MAI‑Voice‑1 (a high‑throughput speech generator) and MAI‑1‑preview (an in‑house mixture‑of‑experts language model), rolling both into Copilot experiences...